P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular Despite RIAA

KarmaOverDogma writes "The New York Times reports that the RIAA's attempts to cut down on (music) file sharing are slow to show any effect, as much of the public still considers the activity to be useful and/or acceptable. P2P filesharing activity has decreased very little since they began their end-user legal campaign."

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In case of slashdotting

[Exiler]

I've started hosting the article on Gnutella

Pirate!

[FortKnox]

Y'arr, does any lad find this here news of pirates somewhat coincidental? Today be talk-like-a-pirate day, it be!
Offenders will get twenty lashes of the cat-o-nine tails or walkin da plank to Davey Jones' locker. Y'arrr!

Re:Pirate!

[Pinball Wizard]

Arrrr, I be Iron Morty Flint, and it shivers me timbers to think that 36 percent of those polled think file swapping is never acceptable. What's wrong with plundering a bit o' booty from time to time?

Yarr, we pirates are not unlike the gangsta rappers the RIAA loves to promote as the icons of American culture. Avast, ye RIAA scum, see how we but speak the same language as ye do:

fo'ties - bottles o' rum
bling bling - booty
Yo! - Avast!
Homey - Matey
Bee-atch - Scurvey dog
Pop a cap in yo ass - Make ye walk the plank
Word - Arrrrrrrrr
Beat down - Keel haul
Wack MC Land - lubber
Playah - Swashbuckler
Mack Daddy - Cap'n
Jacking - Plundering
Rap Sea - Shanties
The joint - The brig
Crew - Crew

So let us be pirates, or we'll pop a cap in yo ass, er, I mean make ye walk the plank, arrrr.

Re:It'll start working eventually

[Anonymous Coward]

Originally read this as "caught and fixed," which may take on the RIAA point of view.
Have your filesharer spayed or neutered.

Re:Let's pay the artists intstead...

[mblase]

I vote for embedding artist PayPal addresses in mp3s.

A wonderful idea, until the first person discovers that that particular block of text can be edited.

Like Prohibition

[chia_monkey]

Yeah...people are cutting down on music filesharing. Sure. Just like people stopped drinking during Prohibition. Riiiight. People just don't do it as blatantly and openly as they used to.

Re:But that doesn't make it legal - so what's bett

[schnell]

First, my hard drive isn't full of their music. I'm too busy protecting my free speech rights to have any time for actual downloading.

I am also too busy protecting my free speech to download things. It's an 18-hour-a-day job posting "freedom of speech is great!" comments to Slashdot, which I think is a great use of my time because 1.) Slashdot is full of anti-free-speech advocates and it's important to win these people over, and 2.) the readership of Slashdot has a lot of political pull in Washington DC, and every "+5 insightful" comment probably sways a couple of senators.

I also rode a giant blue doggy to the Candy Planet.